Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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